Suunto 5 Peak In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/suunto-depth-review.htmlWrapping up on the back we’ve got the optical heart rate sensor, which appears to be the same as from the original Suunto 5 series and doesn’t match the newer Suunto 9 Peak one (which has SpO2 readings, the Suunto 5 Peak does not). … It’ll constantly monitor your heart rate, or, you can take spot-checks on the front watch face, as well as look at the past few hours of heart rate details.
Withings Pulse In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/withings-depth-review.htmlFlipping it over you can see the pulse sensor, which you place up against your finger to get a resting heart rate reading. … Whereas some of the more advanced (which, may be a stretch of that term) upper-arm based units measure sweat and/or heart rate in the drive to get more detailed information about calorie burn.
Apple Watch Series 9 In-Depth Review: A Sports Focus
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/09/series-review-sports.htmlWill estimate cycling power FTP: When using a power meter sensor and heart rate from the watch. … Apple says it leans heavily on the new S9 custom silicon chipset for this function, as well as also leveraging the accelerometer, gyro, and even the heart rate sensor to detect tiny changes in blood-flow.
Garmin Forerunner 620 In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/11/garmin-forerunner-review.htmlOn the left we’ve got the power cable, in the middle we have the watch plus the HRM-Run pod, then the manual, and then finally the heart rate strap that connects to the HRM-Run transmitter pod. … By default this will be things like pace, distance, time and heart rate.
Garmin Enduro GPS Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/02/garmin-enduro-watch-review.htmlAfter this section we’ll dig into all the sport stuff, then hit up battery life and solar bits, before eventually moving on to GPS & heart rate accuracy. … Meanwhile, on the bottom, you’ll find the Garmin Elevate optical HR sensor, which is used for both 24x7 heart rate readings, but also workout HR readings.
Garmin HRM-PRO In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/garmin-chest-review.htmlGarmin has (finally) announced and started shipping the HRM-PRO chest strap, bringing Bluetooth to their higher-end heart rate strap that also transmits advanced running metrics and has memory onboard for watch-less activities. … Offline workout data support for Garmin watches: This first piece is the same as with the original HRM-TRI or HRM-SWIM straps, whereby if you go into the water, it’ll capture your heart rate data to offload back to the watch once you exit the water.
The Pinnacle of Fitness Failure: Samsung’s Gear Fit Activity Tracker
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/04/pinnacle-samsungs-activity.htmlI don’t much care about the pure phone aspects of the S5, but rather things like the optical heart rate sensor on it, as well as the Gear 2 and Gear Fit. … Your heart rate data and exercises will transfer to the S Health App.
Polar Vantage V3 In-Depth Review: The Comeback Kid?
www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/11/polar-vantage-v3-in-depth-review-test.htmlThe Polar Vantage V3’s new features can roughly be grouped into two core chunks: Hardware changes like the display/GPS/sensors, and then the handful of software features required to light-up those new hardware capabilities (like the ECG app for the new heart rate sensor). … For the heart rate variability data (HRV), which is displayed nightly deep in the sleep stats, the numbers Polar is producing with the Vantage V3 have near-identically matched those that Garmin, Suunto, and Whoop have produced (depending on which devices I wear each night to compare to).
Fitbit Inspire HR Activity Tracker In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/03/fitbit-inspire-review-depth.htmlNext, what do you get if you spend $30 more and go for the $99 Inspire? Well, aside from the optical heart rate sensor added to the back, there’s actually a number of other features that come with it. … One element that is used is the heart rate sensor on the back of the device.
COROS APEX 2 and APEX 2 Pro In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/coros-apex-depth-review.htmlThe 1.3” screen COROS APEX 2 Pro includes a revamped optical heart rate sensor, adds multiband GNSS/GPS, adds music storage for MP3s (no streaming service), includes offline maps, touchscreen, WiFi, and HRV readings. … These widgets cover areas like calories, steps, stairs, sleep, training status, heart rate, altimeter data, and more.
Garmin Adds 25+ New Features to Fenix 7/Epix/Instinct 2, Shifts to Quarterly Features Updates
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/05/garmin-features-instinct2.html- Added option menu to Heart Rate app. … - Added a message that displays when heart rate dependent features are launched when Heart Rate tracking setting is disabled.
Apple Watch Ultra In-Depth Review: It’s a Start!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/apple-watch-ultra-review.htmlThat said, I’d recommend you leave it in regular mode as it otherwise reduces some functions (turns down LTE to once per hour checking, turns off some heart rate related notifications, and turns off background HR recording for non-workout usage). … The reason I don’t look at sleep stage/phase accuracy is that the comparative technologies that are available to do so aren’t all that accurate to begin with (about 80% accurate in most cases), and thus, we’d never judge a heart rate sensor or GPS track against something that was wrong 1/5th the time.
Spending time with the team behind the Basis watch
www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/11/walking-down-street-where-blue-dot-on.htmlIn one way, it’s part heart rate monitor, part sleep tracker, and part a slew of other things that aren’t in the market today. … Five core sensor types are contained within the watch: Optical Blood Flow Sensor: This sensor detects heart rate, through pulse or blood flow, and constantly monitors heart rate.
COROS Rolls Out EvoLab – Revamped Training Load Metrics: A Detailed Explainer
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/05/revamped-training-explainer.htmlIn the case of COROS, all of these metrics are entirely heart rate driven, and based on TRIMP. … Thus, as COROS has noted, if your heart rate data is incorrect, your training load data will be too.
Garmin Instinct Crossover Series In-Depth Review: It’s Got Hands!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/garmin-instinct-crossover-review.htmlOn the heart rate zone page? The hands become a dial on the gauge. … I swapped out the solar energy graph at the top for my heart rate, given it’s now fugly-weather time in Amsterdam, and we won’t see the sun till next year anyway.
Everything you ever wanted to know: Garmin’s new Forerunner 230, 235, and 630 watches
www.dcrainmaker.com/2015/10/garmin-fr230-fr235.htmlSpeaking of which, the Stress Score app basically has you stand still for 3 minutes and then leverages an ANT+ heart rate strap to determine your stress levels. … This is likely using heart rate variability to come up with your metered score.
Garmin Epix In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/01/garmin-epix-depth-review.htmlIf you're like me, you find it mildly interesting to see your step tracking, stair tracking, and all the other metrics that these smartwatches measure and track for you, but heart rate tracking is really where these devices shine. … A close look reveals a couple of LED sources, green for regular heart rate detection, and red for pulse oximetry (blood oxygen levels).
Behind the Scenes at Polar’s Headquarters
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/09/behind-scenes-polar.htmlHeading inside the main entrance to the right side they have a small display showing the history of consumer focused Polar products starting from their first heart rate monitor. … On Monday I made a slight detour off of my previously planned journey from France to North America to visit the headquarters of Polar Electro, well known maker of heart-rate focused sport devices.
Polar Verity Sense (Optical HR Sensor Band) In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2021/02/verity-optical-sensor.htmlWhile the Polar OH1 Plus added a new swim goggle strap, it didn’t capture swim distance – just heart rate. … Sure, the Polar Vantage series can capture your swimming heart rate at the wrist, but for most people, that’s a crapshoot at best due to the whacking nature of your wrist on the surface of the water each stroke (and many other factors).
Apple Watch Series 3: Sport & Fitness In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/11/series3-cellular-fitness.htmlIn theory, it’s got the same heart rate sensor, as well as the same GPS capabilities. … Switching a little bit into the health realm, one of the new features that was introduced with watchOS 4 is the elevated heart rate notifications.
Garmin Forerunner 15 GPS Watch & Daily Activity Monitor In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/06/garmin-forerunner-15-depth-review.htmlBut essentially everything boils down to one thing: With or without the heart rate strap. … So, for the purposes of this unboxing the unit has the heart rate strap.
Polar Ignite 3 In-Depth Review: AMOLED Display & Multiband GPS!
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/11/ignite3-display-multiband.htmlNow, it’s worth noting that many of these data points above utilize the optical heart rate sensor on the back. … FitSpark is great at not caring what sport you do to get your heart rate up.
Elite Justo Smart Trainer In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/07/elite-trainer-review.htmlThere’s also new standalone modes, a new wired connection option, and now the ability to bridge in heart rate sensors within the trainer – useful for those that want to Zwift on Apple TV while still being connected to a steering device (like the Elite Sterzo Smart or Elite Rizer). … It’s nice to see a lot of the more ‘practical’ features – stuff like Bluetooth heart-rate bridging (mainly for Apple TV users) and multi-channel support (beneficial for Suunto/Polar/COROS users), and the ERG mode stop-recovery features.
Fitbit Charge 4 with GPS In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/04/fitbit-charge-band-depth-review.htmlWith everything from explainers on how it works to whether or not GPS or heart rate accuracy is any good. … The default one shows the date/time in large font, and then down along the bottom you’ve got a single metric which you can tap to rotate through the core metrics of distance walked, stairs, Active Zone minutes, steps, heart rate, and calories.
COROS APEX Multisport GPS Watch In-Depth Review
www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/02/coros-multisport-review.htmlDespite its somewhat basic software, it actually threw down really impressive GPS performance and strong optical heart rate performance. … Once you’ve selected a sport mode it’ll start acquiring your heart rate, as well as GPS signal (if an outdoors activity).
